non-toyota question - data recovery (1 Viewer)

[2fpower]

Anybody know anything about data recovery on a bad hard drive?

 

[CrowleyFJ40]

Will the computer boot up at all?

 

[2fpower]

I have the drive out and I finally got it to spin up after the freezer trick... but I could not get the computer to recognize it.

 

[CrowleyFJ40]

Download the iso of gparted, burn it to disk and boot up live off of disk. There is a GUI version. Once in there see if that will recognize it. Then try to copy files to another drive. Could also try same thing with live version of ubuntu (linux). I'll be out all afternoon and off mud but yOu can call or text and I'll try my best to help out with those options.

 

[CrowleyFJ40]

Looking at gparted, it looks like it's just for partitions(what I've used it for) but not individual files. Try the ubuntu linux route and see if that gets you anywhere.

 

[2fpower]

Thanks. I will try again tomorrow morning. If I can't get it to work, I will have to send it in to someone.